The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-12
In Brief.

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EXHIBITION OF FOREPAUGHS SHOW after
noon and evening; street parade at IL O'Clock.
In brief
| 1.-THE fire at o'clock this morning destroyed a
| frame cottage Pleasant Run. belonging to
| Isaac N. Farland. The loss wos about $500.
| The Seventh Indiana Cavalry will hold it fifth
reunion in this city on Wednesday, Sept Il. J.
II. Loves, is chairman Of the executive COM
! mIttee.
| The sale of seats for the performances of Pro-
fessor Morris, with his educated dogs and ponies,
| which begins at the Grand Opera-house Mon
Gay, will open to morrow morning.
The Mayor has received communication from
the officials of Milbrook, Kan, asking assistance
for the homeless and destitute in that town,
whose property was destroyed by cyclone
week ago.
The Mayor yesterday found a release from the
heavy court dockets that have occupied his at
tention for several days past He had but one
case to pass judgment on, and that for
drunkenness
Frank S. Murphy, father of Willie B. Murphy,
who was killed last September at the Pne-street
crossing by freight train on the Decline. has
brought suit against the railway company for
5000 damages.
Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to
Thomas L. Taylor and Nancy E. Marsh. John
Q. Miller and Hester Mcclure, John w. Kettlan
and Kate Wiesser, Lafayette Kennedy and
Elizabeth Morell, Abraham V. Schenck and
Emma Probst, Albert Bates and Mary E. Tribue.
The Railroad-mens Building Association, of
TINS city, Med with the county recorder yester-
day Its articles of Incorporation. The capital
stock is 81, 000. 900. and the directors J. H.
Wilson. ). NJ. O'Boyle. W. w. Mansfield B. F.
Sipp. D. f. Whitcomb, J. G. Van Wrinkle, George
hech, Joseph r. Pierce and W. L. Cannon
MRS GRrFFIrHs SUITS AGAINST SULLIVAN.
Squire Feibleman has taken under advise
mont the suit of Mrs. Jane E. Griffith against
John McCarty and John z. Sullivan. and will
render decision to-day The evidence brought
out at the trial shows that the fence which
Sullivan claims encroaches two inches upon mis-
lot, has been standing in its present position
since 1854, and 1t is claimed that undisputed
possessfon for twenty years establishes a bound
airy Ifere are two cases against Sullivan. One
Is Tor trespass in removing the fence, and the
other Is to require him to give bonds for keeping
zee peace, as, it is alleged, he threatened vio-
lence to the complainant.
FoRrY-Two INDICTMENTS RETURNED.
The county grand jury COMPLETED its deibera-
tons yesterday. and returned forty-two indict-
ments, all of which relate to the ordinary run of
offenses. The tally-sheet forgery cases were not
considered. In this jury the Democrats have a
majority of four and as it takes that nu mber to
secure an Indictment, it is presumed the prose-
cution thought justice could be better served by
waiting awhile, especially after the experience
with Democratic petit jury in the United
States Court Two indictments. which were not
ready to be given to the public because of the
non-arrest Of the parties. relate to perjury and
seduction. Abraham u. Gaynor. who is charged
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dicted for embezzlement.
CAN'T GET BACK HEB KEYS.
Minnie Williams and Henry Stakeholder
owned grocery store on North New Jersey
street She says the defendant offered to buy
her interest for s475, to which she consented,
with the understanding that he should pay part
cash and give notes for the rest of the purchase
money. It is charged that before giving her
any money or notes he procured the key to the
store, with the promise that he would return it
to her after he made some improvements in the
room. Mrs. Williams says in her complaint,
filed yesterday, that from March, when the key
was loaned, until the present time she has bean
unable to get possession of the roperty to OBJ
tain any payments. or notes from Stinekuehler
Industrial and Manufacturing Notes.
The &C" Sprins-csrt Company report that
their orders come in faster than they can, with
their increased force. fl them
The starch-works find it difficult TO get corn TO
keep the in operation. They would work up
$500 bushels more per day if they could get it.
Sales of ice have beer 30 large of late that the
home production is getting we'll worked off. and
some of the dealers are beginning to ship IN here
from points north.
The steel pully and machine works
crowded with work that they four weeks be-
hind on their orders. Their pay roll, last week,
showed sixty-nine employees.
VIM II. Bennett Il Son have sold all the slate
mantels and tile hearths for the new residence
of d. Craycraft, at Nobesvlle, Ind. They
to be set to burn natural gas.
The Nichols & Shepard Company, of this city
has sold seven grain separators, vibrator
thrcshers, within the past two weeks. to take
the place of like number that were burned in
the fields.
The Eagle machine orks have the stone.
brick and lumber for their wood work shop
the ground. and will commence erecting it next
week. The building will be 50xl50 feet in size,
and three stories high.
lockwood, Newcomb & Co. are shipping a
80 H.
Southwest, whore new mills are going up. cutting
lumber for buildings in the new towns which
sprngIng mp in southern Kansas.
Dean Bros. have received order from At
tica, Ind, for a second steam pump to increase
the capacity of their water-works. This manu-
factory is also putting in steam pump for the
Waterworks Company at Muncie
The INDIANAPOLIS Rclling-mill Company has
under consideration the conversion of the old
iron rolling mill into mill for manufacturing
gas pipe. Much Of the machinery in the mill
could be utilized to advantage in the manufacture
of such article.
The W. B. Barry Saw and Supply Company
during the first seven months of 1887 paid out %
per cent. more in wages earned by their en-
including wages paid to their employees at their
branch factory at Chattanooga
The Central Chair Company have part Of their
machinery in position and eighty men at work
in their new building and by the first of next
month they will be running full-handed and full
time. Their orders in this State and Illinois
will keep them busy for some months.
S. K Fletcher has jus. returned from
tended Eastern trip in the interest of the Quaker
brick machine fifty of which in
in New York and the New England States.
While absent he sold a number Of machines
in that territory and also in Virginia and New
Jersey.
The Brush Electric-light Company is negoti-
atng for the building recently occupied by the
Emley Railroad Supply Company, near the roll
ing mill This will enable them to greatly in
crease their capacity for furnishing light. and
give them ample room to do their repair work in
their own building.
Hetherngton & Berner building several
of the Rathsom patent flower pot manufacturing
machines These machines will work revoiu-
ton, it is thought. in the manufacture of flower
pots They are worked nv steam power and
are guaranteed O turn ont 5. 600 neatly finished